[bell ringing]
Aai!
Baba's here!
Baba...
You had promised to come sooner.
It took you so long!
Er...
Neena!
Baba has had a long journey.
He must be tired.
Balu dada!
Keep the bag here.
Neena!
Keep Baba's briefcase inside.
Go!
I don't want to.
Come on!
Be a good girl!
Now go!
I hate this.
Listen!
What happened?
Has the case been solved?
There was no news in the newspapers.
Where's Anita?
She's in school.
Umm...
Neena!
Get Baba some water.
[tense music]
Listen.
Is something wrong?
Are you not feeling well?
I'm too exhausted.
I'll rest for a while.
[tense music continues]
Here!
Just a little...yeah, yeah!
Tie it up.
Wake up, Baba!
Baba!
You've been sleeping forever!
Wake up!
What time is it?
It's nine in the morning!
You've been sleeping since yesterday afternoon!
You didn't even wake up for dinner last night!
Neena.
Get down if you're done.
Anita! Go play with tai.
What happened in Manvat exactly?
[tense music]
Your colleagues have been calling incessantly.
You hadn't informed them either.
No, Sir.
They haven't contacted us yet.
Yes. I've booked a call to the Manvat police station.
It'll take four hours they said.
I'll call you back.
Where have you been, Sir!
The Home Minister has been asking for you.
I'll speak to him.
You had a hearing in court yesterday.
You missed that too.
Please sit.
I was about to leave for Mumbai as planned.
[violent door knock]
Open the door, Sir!
Sorry to disturb you, Sir.
But Samindri has raised a ruckus in the lockup...
saying she wants to speak to Ramakant saheb immediately.
[tense music]
Here.
I'm willing to tell you everything.
But...
do you...
promise to take care of Kamli?
Of course.
I don't trust anyone.
Do you trust me?
Yes.
I will personally make sure your daughter is looked after.
Tell me everything...
from the very beginning.
All of this started...
after Rukmini and Jayant had a falling out.
Jayant?
Uttamrao's son...
from his first wife.
Oi! Where the hell are you taking that pillar?
That's pure teak!
That's not your daddy's property, asshole!
Of course, it is!
Your jewellery, your clothes...
and even you...
are all my daddy's property!
Get out! You son of a bitch!
Damn this...
Don't forget you're in my house!
Oi!
Why're you both yelling?
I wasn't!
Ask this woman!
Is it!
Bloody hell.
She asked me not to touch the pillar!
How dare he-
I told him!
I asked him to take them since they were unused.
Used or unused, I don't care!
He has no business taking anything from here without asking me!
Shut up, you whore!
What the bloody hell!
Watch your mouth!
All this will be mine after you both die!
Let's go!
Bloody asshole!
I'm childless.
That's why he has the balls to talk to me like this!
But you know how hard we've tried.
We've done every ritual that Kaachu Paaku asked us to do.
I know.
We even visited that doctor in Mumbai.
Rukmini! Not every woman can be a mother and there's nothing you can do!
[pensive music]
[sniffles, whimpers]
She wept all night.
The next day, Ganpat showed up.
Salve?
[door creaks open]
Ganpat Salve.
I'm a psychic.
I can get...
anything in this world to give birth.
I have a panacea that will give you a child.
If I fail, you get your money back.
I never heard of Ganpat Salve again.
But on the next new moon day...
I heard they did some ritual in the mansion.
What kind of ritual?
I wasn't there.
And then...
the first woman was killed.
Gayabai.
Followed by Shakeela.
And so she suspected that...
Uttamrao, Rukmini and Ganpat Salve are in some way...
related to these two murders.
So that means...
Samindri turned witness eventually?
I got the feeling Rukmini akka is hiding something from me.
And so asked Sopanya to meet me.
To get to the bottom of this.
But...
isn't Sopan a loyal servant of Uttamrao?
He is.
Then...
what made you think he would turn on them and tell you everything?
Because he loves me.
After my husband left me...
we've become quite close.
Every now and then...
I also help him out financially.
I was the one who...
got his sister Sheshabai a job at the dairy.
Excellent!
Despite all this, you killed her son Kondya.
Sorry.
Right, moving on.
About Sopan.
Ganpat told Rukminibai...
that he has an elixir...
that will help her bear a child.
But he first needs to know...
why Rukminibai stopped having her period.
And he'll have to do a separate ritual for that.
So then?
So then...
Rukminibai didn't give Uttamrao an option.
And who's gonna say no to a woman like her?
Wait a minute!
Where is Ganpat Salve?
[suspenseful music]
[suspenseful music continues]
[door knock]
Ganpat Salve?
Who?
Who's Ganpat Salve?
[dramatic music]
Ganpat...
Bhagoji...
Salve.
[soft groan]
Why fear...
when the solution is right here!
A solution...
for everything except death!
Get your money back...
if you don't get what you want!
Black magic, sorcery, casting spells, witchcraft!
This is just the basic stuff.
And if you want a child...
a panacea that fixes everything!
The greatest of all psychics!
The eternal psychic!
Have I left out anything?
If you're such a great psychic...
you must know what a cognisable offence means.
An offence that the police must take cognisance of!
Where the investigation starts immediately.
Where the police can arrest an accused without a warrant.
For example...
theft...
rape...
and murder.
I haven't killed anyone, Saheb.
What was that in Rukmini's mansion!
That was just business, saheb.
That son of a bitch Kaachu Paaku had a monopoly in Manvat!
I was just trying to...
Don't hide anything.
Tell me everything! Right now!
I'll tell you, saheb.
[pensive music]
A distant relative of mine named Shankar...
used to work for Uttamrao.
Right.
I know that.
What about that?
He told me...
about Rukminibai's desperation...
for a child.
And the mantra for bearing a child...
is my speciality.
I'm famous for that.
Just how did you get so famous?
I'm an honest man, saheb.
I guarantee people that...
I'll return their money...
if they don't have a child.
Some women...
do what it takes to bear a child.
I don't return their money.
And those who don't bear one...
get their money back.
Those who bear children spread the word.
And those who get money also spread the word.
That's all it takes to be famous.
I'm telling you the truth.
I haven't done anything!
Keep talking!
You met Rukmini.
After that?
Then I asked them if could carry out a special ritual...
to find out why Rukminibai wasn't getting pregnant.
But before I could do that...
I set up a fake ritual...
with Shankar.
[dramatic music]
[ominous music]
I can sense the presence...
of a powerful spirit in this mansion.
We can't proceed until we find out what the spirit wants.
But for that...
I'll need one of you...
to act as a medium.
Medium? What does that mean?
It means the spirit will possess your body...
and tell us what it wants.
Who's going to do it?
Who is it going to be?
Will we be OK?
I mean is it safe?
Absolutely.
Once you're possessed, you won't know what's happening around you.
Alright.
Let's do this.
I'll do it.
Then come sit here.
[fast-paced, tension-filled music]
[slow, ominous music]
[chants mantra]
[eerie, fast music]
[silence]
What is your name?
Who are you?
I'm a spirit dwelling on this Peepal tree.
[suspenseful music]
Will you answer our questions?
I'll need a chicken.
Granted!
Now ask me.
Ask me anything you want.
Why did Rukminibai suddenly stop menstruating?
Tell me why!
[loud chuckle]
My dark spell...
won't make her belly swell!
Until I am pacified...
I will not let an heir be born in this house!
[fast, suspenseful music]
Tell me how to pacify you.
Look at that tree!
Make a home for me near that tree!
Kneel before me and light a lamp every day!
Will you do it?
We will, we will.
Will that be enough for you?
No!
I want a human sacrifice!
Sacrifice a little girl.
Unless you sacrifice a human...
this woman will not bear a child.
[groaning sounds]
Did you hear what the spirit said?
You'll have to sacrifice a human for him.
A girl who hasn't started menstruating.
Once you offer this spirit blood from her privates...
Rukminibai will bear a child.
You heard him.
Didn't you?
[Kamli coughing]
After hearing all that Ganpat told them...
they discussed the problem.
Uttamrao was against doing any of this.
But Rukminibai...
Rukminibai didn't give him a choice.
I hope you're kidding.
It's not easy.
There you are.
We're going to do...
what the psychic has asked us to do.
Are you out of your mind, Rukmini?
I want a child.
Do you really think this is going to work?
What makes you think it won't?
[eerie music]
The spirit wants a human sacrifice.
Of a prepubescent girl.
Here.
Here, take this.
Keep it.
Here.
Rukmini!
I'm the one who people call barren!
Not you!
They gave the task of killing a prepubescent girl...
and getting her blood...
to Sopan and Yashwant.
[whistling sound]
They never wanted to kill anyone.
But Uttamrao promised them 15 rupees and a bottle of booze.
And they couldn't resist that offer.
They took her to a wooded area and killed her.
They took the blood from her privates and...
brought it to the mansion.
[loud thud]
Why the hell did you rape her?
I did not rape her!
That motherfucker Yashwant did.
He raped her before killing her.
And then?
After that?
I had decided to do the first ritual...
and be happy with whatever I get.
Because I was sure these people won't sacrifice a human.
Help me understand something.
You did this just for a paltry fee?
No!
Not just for that.
After hearing about the ritual at Rukminibai's mansion...
I would have had plenty of customers in Manvat.
But Uttamrao actually killed a little girl...
got her blood and called me over.
[suspenseful music]
I was scared shitless.
But it was important for me...
to play along.
[eerie music]
Where is the body?
Huh?
Where did you dump the little girl's body?
Umm...
same place where we killed her.
Never do that.
What then?
Understand that this spirit is the boss.
We've made it happy but what about his lackey?
His lackey?
There are Pandhryas all over the village and they're hungry.
Always dump the body around them.
The spirit takes the blood...
Pandhrya takes the body.
Well, OK.
No one knows about it yet.
Huh?
It's not too late to move it.
Hmm.
Don't worry.
You'll get what you want.
Everyone waited for a month.
Rukminibai didn't get her period.
So Uttamrao asked Ganpat...
why this wasn't working.
So he said...
the sacrifice wasn't enough for the spirit.
And that it needs more blood.
So then?
So then...
we committed a second murder.
Oi!
It's too far away, you'll miss the target.
[chuckles]
Have you eaten?
No?
I've got an extra roti.
I'll share one with you.
OK?
Come!
[ominous music]
So I gave her the roti.
Just then, Yashwant arrived.
And grabbed her neck.
[sharp slicing sound]
Ganpat took the second girl's blood and again did the ritual.
Everyone waited for a few days again.
She still didn't get her period.
Uttamrao was losing his shit.
He asked Ganpat to come and meet him.
Uttamrao!
Rukminibai!
Uttamrao!
Who is it?
Who's that there?
Come here, you asshole.
[door opens]
What kind of psychic are you?
You should've guessed this.
[eerie music]
It is feeling suffocated.
It needs to be set free.
Who?
Who needs to be set free?
Who?
[sniggers]
I feel like thrashing you right now.
Well!
Where were we "Dr. Storyteller"?
Continue.
Who is it?
Who's that in there?
It's me, maalik. You called...
You son of a bitch!
Have you been taking us for a ride?
We've spent a fortune and wasted our time on rituals...
only because you asked us to.
We even slaughtered two people and it's been a waste!
Please listen to me, maalik.
Remember what you said?
Umm...
If you don't bear a child, I'll return your money.
Return the money!
Please listen to me, maalik.
It's your guy's mistake.
What!
I had told you...
very clearly that...
we need the blood of a little girl.
Shut up, you dumbfuck.
That's what we gave you.
Yes, you did.
But before you gave it to me...
she was raped.
Look at this.
How do you expect the remedy to work?
That pervert Yashwant couldn't keep his dick in check.
Asshole. [whispers]
What now?
How do we solve this now?
[suspenseful music]
There is a way.
You need to...
sacrifice another girl.
Listen!
I've had enough of this nonsense!
I don't want your remedies and I don't even want my money back!
Maalik.
We've made another grave mistake.
I realised it when I was taking to Mai.
She was born breech, right?
Yes.
She dreams about hidden treasures, right?
Yes.
Why didn't you tell me this?
Why is that important?
There's a treasure hidden under this Peepal tree.
The spirit has been guarding it!
For many years!
It is tired of its duty and that's why you're facing its wrath.
Damn.
What the hell does that mean?
Unearth that treasure and set the spirit free.
Only then can it bless Rukminibai with a child.
You get the treasure...
and Rukminibai gets her child!
You can kill two birds...
with one stone.
Please don't think twice.
Let's get done with the next ritual.
[eerie music]
Ganpat came back 8-10 days later.
He said...
that he's learnt a new form of witchcraft...
from some Bengali Baba.
"Of elevens, a goat and the earth."
He said the spirit now wants the blood of a woman, not a girl.
Eleven women will have to be sacrificed.
And Uttamrao and Rukmini agreed to all of this?
Rukmini was craving a child.
And Uttamrao was craving that treasure.
Why wouldn't they agree?
I think this was when...
you sent us that anonymous letter.
Yes.
But Paranje was of no help.
And then...
Sopan and Yashwant...
committed the third murder.
[ominous music]
[whirring followed by a thud]
That's a bull's eye.
I was 20 feet away.
You're quite the pro.
It's me who's killed her.
So you collect the blood.
She's alive.
Bloody hell.
[suspenseful music]
[music builds]
[loud thud]
Sugandhabai's sacrifice wasn't enough, so you killed another one?
But didn't you decide to stop after you got paid for the first ritual?
And yet you just kept on killing!
He promised to pay me 100 rupees for the ritual.
My daughter is suffering from tuberculosis.
I need to buy expensive injections...
and get X-rays done.
And you call yourself a psychic?
You were ready to kill people to save your own daughter?
In the fourth murder, you had only taken a few body parts.
Why?
I'm a psychic, saheb!
I need to keep things mysterious for others to believe me!
That's why for the fourth ritual I asked for a head...
some flesh from the chest and a little finger.
Apart from this...
I had also carried out a grand ritual.
A special ritual.
And yet, nothing happened.
What the hell did you think was going to happen?
The treasure was supposed to force its way to the top!
Did you really believe this was going to happen?
Uttamrao and his mother did.
But we never heard the clinking of the treasure.
And Uttamrao...
was so furious that he yelled at me.
So then I asked Yashwant and Sopan...
to take me to the place where they hid the body.
There was still one more ritual to go.
You marked a circle around the body and placed nuts in it.
I guess I must have.
What is that supposed to mean?
This didn't really mean anything?
Do you know how many sleepless nights Sir wasted...
reading books about black magic...
just to figure out what those markings meant!
This is all a hoax!
We're clueless and illiterate people!
At least you are educated!
Shouldn't you have figured this out?
[loud smack]
Sorry.
I kept calm for too long.
I just couldn't control it.
[heavy breathing]
[soft whimper]
After the fourth murder...
why were you hiding in Baramati?
CID officer Ponkshe arrested Uttamrao and Rukminibai.
So I thought he'll come after me next, and so I fled.
If you weren't here for the treasure rituals...
why were the other murders committed?
I have no idea what happened.
I think they must have found another psychic.
[sobbing]
This is unbelievable.
But then why were the other murders committed?
Exactly.
That's what we were wondering too.
When that CID officer Ponkshe...
had arrested...
Rukmini, Uttamrao and a few others among us...
I had visited Rukmini.
That's when she told me about the initial murders.
Didn't you know that already?
She didn't know Sopanya had told me everything.
Ah.
I acted like I was hearing it for the first time.
If you want the police to stop suspecting us...
[clears throat]
you'll need to commit another murder.
[suspenseful music]
If someone is killed while we're here in prison...
the police will be convinced that...
we are not responsible for the previous murders.
I gave Sopanya her message.
But he refused to commit another murder.
And Yashwant?
He had fled quite a while ago.
But then...
who killed the other people?
I'm sorry I don't want to be a part of this mess.
[eerie music]
I've not been helping you for free, you asshole.
This is what I want in return.
[ominous music]
[loud thud]
So...
these people were killed only to mislead the police?
Yes, saheb.
[suspenseful music]
Help me! Help!
Each one of the victims belonged to a different caste, saheb.
The Barhates have been spared.
Oi!
Answer me you idiot!
You know what's happening in the village!
[loud thud]
Because of all this...
the police stopped suspecting Uttamrao and Rukminibai.
Which is why they were released from jail.
And what about Kondya?
You killed him...
because he killed your goat.
I still don't buy that.
Kamlay! Come, let's play!
So what is it that want me to do?
So...
all the victims so far have been women and girls.
They're suspecting it has something to do with our rituals.
Here's what we need to do.
What 'you' need to do.
Find a little boy from among us and...
So that Kulkarni will stop suspecting us.
And he'll probably go back to Mumbai.
A little boy from among us?
Who are you talking about?
Kondya!
[suspenseful music]
I don't...
I don't think I can do this.
Why not?
He's a good kid.
His mother is in prison because of me.
So that's...
Sheshabai.
Yes, saheb.
The same one who went to jail in the Janaki Dairy case.
[panting]
Listen.
You fucking tramp.
In that case...
how about we kill your daughter instead?
That sound better?
Does it?
Who's going to kill Kondya?
Tukya's told me that...
he doesn't want to be part of this mess.
For 15 rupees and some booze, you'll find a lot of people.
Should we take a break?
Saheb...
I never wanted to kill Kondya.
He was Sopanya's nephew.
Even he tried to talk Akka out of it.
[suspenseful music]
We don't have a choice, Sopanya.
You don't have to do it.
We'll find someone else.
Happy?
Here.
Now go.
Finally, I found Bajya and Palya.
They used to work in the dairy.
I convinced them.
And that's how Kondya...
You know the rest, saheb.
In this entire Manvat case...
you paid attention to every little detail.
But you made a mistake by killing Kondya.
Correct.
But then...
why didn't you kill Babu?
It wasn't that easy.
There were police officers everywhere.
And so we decided to take him away from Manvat and kill him.
But would they have...
also killed Kamli?
Who knows?
Tell me something, Samindri.
Yesterday...
you refused to help me.
So...
what changed today?
It agreed to do this for Kamli, saheb.
I don't think...
my sister would take care of her.
My girl has seen...
unspeakable things in that mansion, saheb.
[suspenseful music]
I've never trusted anyone, saheb.
But I'm trusting you.
Please look after my girl!
Please take care of her!
[sobbing]
Shukla will take you...
to the judicial magistrate in the afternoon.
I want you to tell him everything...
that you just told me.
He will record your statement.
We can then find a public prosecutor...
and start the process of making you a prosecution witness.
OK?
OK.
Samindri, Sopan and Ganpat Salve can all be witnesses, Sir.
So you've solved this case too, Sir.
Thank you, Bhosale.
We'll need to inform the Home Minister right away, Sir.
Right.
I'll call him.
We can do the press conference now.
The world needs to know about your success.
Kadam.
We might have solved this Manvat case.
But we haven't seen...
the last of these incidents.
We need to make sure they never happen again.
Finding criminals...
is our job.
But...
what we should really do...
is neutrally examine the system that nurtures these criminals.
When I say system...
I mean all of this.
Everything around us.
I mean...
faith...
superstitions.
Umm, education.
Caste, creed, religion.
Poverty.
Government.
All of you.
And me as well.
And God knows what else.
We need to keep improving this system.
And for that...
we must find the truth...
behind the truth.
[clicking of cameras]
Solving a case...
doesn't mean our work ends.
Every closed case...
has its own consequences.
And dealing with them as an officer isn't enough.
One needs to be a citizen...
a human to understand them.
Perhaps...
at the bottom of every crime...
lies someone manipulating the system.
In the fight between good and evil...
they always seem to choose the wrong side.
But...
as the law of karma says...
God is fair...
and gives you exactly what you deserve.
And...
in case God forgets...
we can always count on our justice system...
to give criminals the punishment they deserve.
And then there are those who are born with misfortune.
It is the system that takes them down the wrong path.
They too deserve a second chance.
[upbeat music]
There is always a way out of these complexities.
You may have chosen the wrong path initially.
But if you try hard enough, you'll always find a way.
The world can be a terrible place...
but it is always worth fighting for.
We just need to find goodness in people.
If we can find it...
and nurture it...
future generations will continue fighting for this goodness.